Ozbots

                As I was talking to my friend the other night I then realized something. Other than feeling how old we really are. I realized that we are all living different lives now and the only thing that holds us together is our memories back in high school.  Even until now, it still hasn’t sunk into me that I have already graduated from high school. Maybe because I had a lame graduation or because almost everyone I knew back during high school is here. Everything seemed to happen so fast. One day I was just entering high school, the next I am already an alumnae. Passing by my old high school and seeing the students wearing our old white and blue uniforms makes me nostalgic. It all seems so surreal like I lived it another lifetime. Despite all of these things one thing is clear- change is inevitable. No matter how much you’d like to hold onto the past change would always catch up to you and eventually succumb to it. Being a fresh graduate from high school I was so excited to get to college. All I thought about was how cool and fun is. I basically placed college life up on a pedestal, and little did I know that it was more of work than play. If I were to sum up my whole college experience in percentage it would look like 90% work and 10% fun with work. My block mates and I had a field trip. But before that said field trip we all had to research which would mean sleepless nights and long research papers to be passed the next day. After that it was already the day of the field trip we all had to wake up really early. Despite all that lack of sleep we still had fun we even went snorkelling and trekking. Although there are a lot sleepless nights and countless research papers that needs to passed we would still manage to have fun in between. Now that I have experience college life firsthand I’d say that college isn’t all fun as I used to think it was but it is more of work but fun can be found in between after all , “all work and no fun makes me a very dull person.”I have also met a lot of new and interesting people. Some have become one of my closest friends while some have just remained acquaintances. And with each new person I meet, I gain a new outlook on life. During the first few weeks in college, I was really apprehensive towards my block mates. I would usually ditch my block mates for my high school friends because I felt that I really had nothing in common with them. It also made me feel really tiresome because I felt like I had to keep up an appearance with them. I didn’t realIy feel comfortable just being myself with them and it was tiring me out. I treated the time being with my block mates like going to work. And remembering it now, makes me feel ridiculous because whenever I am with my high school friends it seemed like a break time from all that work. I even said to myself that we are different because I came from an all girls school where the atmosphere is different. And to top it all off most of us are Chinese.  But the bottom line is our personalities just don’t mesh well. I thought that was the reason. But really it was an excuse why I’d rather hang out with my friends. It was all going fine until I started to notice some of my friends getting along just fine with their block mates. It was then that I realized that it was not because we had nothing in common but because I didn’t give myself a chance to get to know them better. It was then on that I decided to stick around long enough to get to know them. And as time passed I found myself to be enjoying my block mates’ company where I even found a ‘barkada’ in my block. It really changed my mind it wasn’t because I was Chinese or that our personalities clash but because I was reluctant to get to know them. I judged them then and there right away knowing nothing about them.Being in college and dreaming of coming to college has brought big differences. Being in college would ultimately be the one to “shatter” your dream images of college. It would let you see the real life of a college student. And true enough being in college has changed almost all of my first impressions of college. And yet it also gave me new experiences and lessons that I wouldn’t trade for anything in the world. Although I may have some nerve wrecking experiences in college I also did have a lot of new and fond memories which I would treasure forever. There are a lot of new and exciting experiences in college but we need to grasp those opportunities and be open to them. I firmly believe that there are two kinds of people. The first one, is the one that makes the story, while the second one is the one who stands by and watches the story unfold. I was once the kind who just stands by and watches the story unfold but I learned that nothing will happen if you don’t make things happen. I have changed my mind about a lot of things and perhaps more, in the future. No matter what happens I will make sure that I am going to be the one that writes my story. This is something I know that I will never change my mind on.